TYPE SPECIMENS OF BIRDS 13 



61259. Adult (sex not indicated). Kauai Island {fide Stejneger, Proc. 

 U.S. Nat. Mus. 10:75-77, 1887), Hawaiian Islands, Oceania. En- 

 tered into the museum register in January 1872. Collected by 

 Valderaar Knudsen. 

 Procellaria brevipes Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. and Orn.) : 294, "pi. LXXX," 

 1848. 



=^Pterodroma leucoptera brevipes (Peale). See Peters, Checklist of 

 birds of the world 1 : 65, 1931. 



15459, Adult (sex not indicated). Lat 68° S., long. 95° W. March 21, 

 1839. Original number 750. U.S. Exploring Expedition (1838- 

 1842). 



15520. Adult (sex not indicated). Same data as No. 15459. 



Loomis (Proc. California Acad. Sci. (4) 2: 93, 1918) has referred to No. 

 15459 as "the type," but in fact the two specimens here listed have equal 

 status as cotypes. 



Genus PAGODROMA Bonaparte 



Procellaria Candida "Peale, MS." Peale 



U.S. Exploring Expedition 8 (Mamm. and Orn.) : 295, "pi. LXXXi," 

 1848 (in synonymy of Procellaria nivea) . 

 Pagodroma nivea pealei Mathews 



Bull. Brit. Orn. Club 49: 19, October 30, 1928. 

 =Pagodroma nivea (J. R. Forster). See Peters, Checklist of birds of 



the world 1:67, 1931. 

 15528. Adult (sex not indicated) . "At latitude 64° S., and about 104° 

 W. of Greenwich." Original number 751. U.S. Exploring Expedition 

 (1838-1842). 

 15536. Adult (sex not indicated). Same data as No. 15528. 

 Peale stated that "a number of specimens were preserved"; Cassin's MS. 

 list indicates that there were in fact four. No. 15524 was sent to the Boston 

 Society of Natural History about 1863 and is now No. 75658 of the Museum 

 of Comparative Zoology; No. 15532 is no longer in the National Museum 

 and may have been given away, although no record of such a transaction 

 has been preserved. 



Pagodroma nivea pealei Mathews is a new name for Procellaria Candida 

 Peale, which, at its first appearance, was treated as an absolute synonym of 

 Procellaria nivea J. R. Forster 1777, based upon a specimen taken at lat. 

 52° S., long. 20° E. 



Genus BULWERIA Bonaparte 



Procellaria columbina Barker-Webb, Berthelot, and Moquin-Tandon 



Hist. Nat. des lies Canaries 2 (2) Zool. (Orn.) : pi. 4, fig. 2, July 1838. 

 =Bulweria hulwerii (Jardine and Selby). See Bannerman, Ibis (10) 2: 

 488-489, 1914. 



